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Blue Angels Arrive in Mankato Ahead of Air Show - KEYC TV | AP Sports News Video Anyone under the age of eighteen can get free meals this summer in Mankato, regardless of income. Any kid can eat free Monday through Friday this summer in Mankato, regardless of income. Over 30 Somali employees in Le Center have ...

(PHOTO GALLERY) Airshow performers start arriving - Mankato Free Press | By Pat Christman The Free Press MANKATO — Aerobatic teams started arriving at the Mankato Regional Airport Wednesday to get ready for the Minnesota Air Spectacular air show this weekend. The US Navy's flight demonstration team, the Blue Angels, ...

Fort McHenry expects large crowds during Sailabration - Baltimore Sun | Officials say they expect 20000 or more people to visit the star-shaped fort on each of two days, June 16 and 17, for shows by the Blue Angels and for fireworks and a concert on the evening of June 16. About 6000 people are expected June 18 for ...

Stunts and more in store for ShrinerFest air show - Evansville Courier & Press | Bob Burns / Special to The Courier & Press Matt Younkin will do aerobatics with a Beechcraft Model 18 at the Shrinersfest air show this weekend. Scott Slocum / Special to The Courier & Press Matt Younkin will be flying the Beechcraft Model 18, ...

Air show to benefit Ashe Habitat for Humanity - Jefferson Post | by Nathan Ham For the second year, spectators will crowd into Ashe County Airport for the Wheels and Wings Open House, an air show and car show that will help raise money for Ashe Habitat for Humanity. Gates for the event will open at 9 am with the ...

Snowbird pilots land at PD-day camp in Kitchener  - The Record | Ashleigh Birnstihl is pretty sure she knows what job she wants in about 20 years. The five-year-old Kitchener girl knew exactly what she wanted to ask a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot Capt. Brett Parker Friday at Themuseum in Kitchener....

Vulcan doubtful for Waddington International Air Show after engine fault - This is Lincolnshire | The last flying Vulcan bomber is unlikely to make an appearance at the Waddington International Air Show after a double engine fault. The aircraft was about to take off to practise its routine for the show when one engine started expelling smoke and ...

Old warplanes returning to Bremerton National Airport - Kitsap Sun | A B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator and P-51 Mustang will be at Avian Flight Center for tours and rides from June 18-20. They're part of the Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour. It's a nonprofit educational group that organizes living ...

68th Anniversary of D-Day Landings from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | On June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which "we will accept nothing less than full victory." More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day's end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded -- but more than 100,000 Soldiers began the march across Europe to defeat Hitler...

The Eagles Have Landed from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | MAXWELL AFB AL- The Gathering of Eagles week is an annual capstone event for Air Command and Staff College. The Eagles, notable air, space or cyberspace pioneers, will share their living histories and lessons learned with Air Command and Staff College students...

Photos: D-Day Plane in Manassas - Patch.com | The C-47, also know as the 'Gooney Bird' or W7, participated in the D-Day invasion in western Europe 68 years ago today, but was recently showcased looking pretty good at the Manassas Airshow. By Erin Gibson Today marks the 68th anniversary of the ...

World War II vet recalls Japan bombing raid at "Gathering of Eagles" at ... - al.com | By David White -- The Birmingham News MAXWELL Air Force Base, Alabama --- Sixteen B-25 bombers took off from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet and raided Japan on April 18, 1942, providing a huge morale boost for an American public weary of defeat after ...

Ford flies Michigan, Kentucky vets to commemorate D-Day at WWII Memorial - Detroit Free Press | The automaker also announced a $200000 grant to purchase eight vehicles for the Disabled American Veterans Transportation Network, bringing Ford's $7.3 million commitment to date to 164 vehicles to help veterans get to their appointments...

World War II aviator remembers 'do or die' on D-Day - Richmond Times Dispatch | For Homer K. Buerlein in 1944, a B-26 medium bomber pilot with the US Army Air Corps 391st Bombardment Group, D-Day was just... "It was bedlam," Homer K. Buerlein recalls of his view from 3500 feet of the June 6, 1944, invasion of Normandy.

WWII fighter pilot honored with fly-by on Orcas, June 7 - Islands' Sounder | The Heritage Flight Museum, located at Bellingham International Airport, will honor WWII fighter pilot, Museum supporter and long-time Orcas Island resident Harold Asper with a traditional missing man formation fly-by of his funeral services at 1 pm,...

The Story of the American Journalists Who Landed on D-Day - Daily Beast | Captain Bob Sheets and his crew (their B-17 bomber was named Shoo Shoo Baby after an Andrews Sisters' song) had been introduced to their visitor at the preflight briefing precisely three-and-a-half hours after midnight. They found themselves shaking ...

Heinkel He 115 update from Apron 6 | Just found another video about the Heinkel He115 that’s been recovered in Norway....

Girls With Wings Aviation Inspiration Day 2012 pt 3 from Life on the Road as a Pilot | CAF- MN Volunteer Donald | I hope to wrap up about Aviation Inspiration Day soon, but there's just so much to talk about! Held on May 26th in S. St. Paul, MN, the morning dawned with a glimmer of sunshine. We'd been anxiously watching the weather forecast for days vacillating between isolated and scattered thundershowers, but we held out hope that we would get lucky. We got there early, setting up the signage and the exhibitor tables and the Girls With Wings Presentation materials, in the midst of a media frenzy coordinated by Dave Sniadak of Axiom Marketing....

Time almost out for the First Canadian team to prestigious Schools Aerospace Challenge 2012 from Aviation.ca News | The Alberta Aviation Museum received an invitation from the prestigious Schools Aerospace Challenge 2012 to send the first Canadian Team to the challenge.

Roanoke pilot is picked to go on private spaceflight - Fort Worth Star Telegram | Since then, the Roanoke resident has been a pioneer for women in aviation, setting standards as a pilot, flying instructor and a hopeful astronaut-in-training. Now, though, the elusive goal she's sought since childhood is in sight.

Felix Baumgartner: Call The Doctor | Red Bull Stratos from Aerial Sports Feed | Ahead of Felix Baumgartner’s attempt to become the first person to freefall from space, Red Bull Stratos' medical director Dr Jonathan Clark explains what precautions the team are taking...

NASA Joins Girl Scouts Celebrating 100 Years Of Inspiration And Empowerment from Aero-News Network | Deputy Administrator Garver, Two Female Astronauts Will Keynote Event NASA will mark the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts of America by hosting a Girl Scouts Rock@NASA event from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. EDT June 8 in the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium located at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and two former astronauts, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Pam Melroy, will participate.

1 space shuttle already at museum, 2 more to go - WOKV | AP The space shuttle Enterprise makes the final leg of its journey to its new Manhattan home on the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Wednesday, June 6, 2012, in New York. The US space agency, NASA, ended its shuttle program last...